Consider a square ABCD of side length 16. Let E, F be points on CD such that CE = EF = FD. Let the l

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Consider a square ABCD of side length 16. Let E, F be points on CD such that CE = EF = FD. Let the line BF and AE meet in M. The area of MAB is:

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